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The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)

Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 89

An illustration from The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages, 1851, leaf 89 — ers andfcroll-work, wrought with fmall bands of twitted filver-gilt wire. TheNiche contains a coral figure of the Virgin with the infant Saviour, re-lieved by a back-ground of deep blue enamel powdered with gold ftars.The Pilafters and fcroll-work are filled in with light blue, green, andwhite… … Itrom a ^aitittfb GCtvameJL A FIGURE OF ST. CATHERINE. IN PAINTED ENAMEL. FROM A TRIPTYCH IN THE POSSESSION OF JOHN SWABY, ESQ^ HE term a Pailliettes (fpangled) has been given, withgreat propriety by French antiquaries to the kind of ena-mel of which the very beautiful Triptych, from whichour print…

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